February 13, 2023
Hi all, last night we docked in Hobart. Hobart a city of 210,000 people on the island of Tasmania. Hobart is also the capital of Tassie. The whole of Tasmania has approximate 575000 residents. Main industries are shipbuilding, agriculture, wineries and tourism. Hobart is a very nice City on the water. A lot of the sandstone buildings were build with the help of the convicts in the late 1700’s. We got on shore early and spend our time walking around the harbour. Today was a holiday to celebrate the wooden boat regatta. Over 500 wooden boats would go out on the water this afternoon. There was a lot of activity around the harbour, model boat building show and a display of old steam engines. Later that morning we had booked a short excursion to visit the historic town of Richmond about 20km away. There were a lot of historical buildings dating back to 1825-1830. We visited Richmond Gaol ( you guys guessed it right) an old jail . the jail was used till 1928. There was also the oldest bridge in Australia, still in pretty good shape. We managed to cross it with the bus with no problems. After the stop in town we stopped at a winery for some wine tasting on our way back to the City The vineyard was called the Puddleduck. After tasting four different wines, we returned back to the City. We completed our excursion around 3:30 PM. After sailing out of the bay by 5 PM , we had our dinner inside the ship. The temperature had dropped enough that it was to chilly to eat outside. For tonight we had entered another bar hop, visiting 4 different bars on the ship and doing silly contest’s at each location. In each location we were served a different cocktail.
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